Brandenburg Poems


Premium MemberTo Karin: Brandenburg Gate

...Like some dark frail bird
she quivered and fluttered
there at my door
one dark cold Advent night,
swearing to return
come the new year
with a photo of Brandenburg Gate.

Arms, hands, fingerti...
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Categories: brandenburg, december, farewell, feelings, lost
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTo Karin: The Unsent Letter

...I called you my Magyar princess
because of your smoldering eyes
and dark hair but maybe you were
just a woman
who knew how to disappear
while standing still.

I got your number from 
your gra...
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Categories: brandenburg, farewell, lost love, memory,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberSanta, Professor Rumbold And Bob

...'Twas the night before Christmas and outside was blizzardly
Mrs Claus was busy hanging baubles on the Christmas tree
Santa felt cold and shivery and was succumbing to the flu
And told Mrs Claus "I...
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Categories: brandenburg, christmas, humor, snow,
Form: Rhyme

Some History

...you like history here you go, a list of their history in short

740.    BC The Assyrians cursed them.

579.    BC The Babylonians fell asleep and remained for about 60 years.

70.      The Roma...
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Categories: brandenburg, history,
Form: Monoku

Premium MemberFrom Bach To the Beatles To the Birds

...I had the most beautiful musical experience…and it all begins…
with a thousand candles and four musicians…one cello and three violins.

This string quartet sat on a stage surrounded by candlelight...
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Categories: brandenburg, music,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberFall of Berlin

...Fall Of Berlin

There on the wall hangs a mixture of paint on linen,
Leaving the impression of a city besieged, encased in ice;
Purposely frozen in horror to remind the living,
Of blood o...
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Categories: brandenburg, history, war, world war
Form: Verse

Bezirke

...
“Bezirke”



Bit by bit 
we build our walls
strict little districts
to pin our minds on
and keep the paper tigers out

Political Romantics
co...
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Categories: brandenburg, freedom, future, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberUnquotable Quotes: Lv - Mind Unwinding Tweezers

...UNQUOTABLE QUOTES : LV - Mind unwinding tweezers

If you let « bygones be bygones » , there’ll be no FUTURE left, and since we can’t always live in the EVER PRESENT (yet that’s what we all do), ...
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Categories: brandenburg, humor, satire, wind, word
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Around the World In Eighty Days

...His German relations would turn in their graves
This great gnome abduction is causing shock waves,
It reads like the spy who came in from the cold
They've held him to ransom and broken the mould.
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Categories: brandenburg, character, fun, humor, humorous,
Form: Light Verse

The Wall

...It was decades ago,
When my two eyes were young,
That they savored the Tiergarten
And Kurfurstendamm—
That avenue, tree-lined,
With Berliners, it bustled—
And Tempelhof airport,
Where pilots, ...
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Categories: brandenburg, freedom,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLets Make It Dark

...
we visited-
brandenburg gate and   charlottenburg palace
   oh so lovely
we prayed on our knees at the berlin cathedral
saw all the museums there are to see
I wept at the berlin wall
but ...
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Categories: brandenburg, passion,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI Am the Dead Poet

...I Am The Dead Poet


Strains of Bach’s Brandenburg,
And billows of brown smoke
Rise up together like crazed conniving snakes
Here in the toxic suburban shadows
Where once again, no one will ca...
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Categories: brandenburg, death, universe,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Premium MemberAbc World's Famous Scientists In History

...A  is for Anton van Leeuwenhoek- in his simple  microscope made him well-known,
B is for Benjamin Franklin who invented  the electricity  from the flow of electrons.

C is for Curie, Marie -a woma...
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Categories: brandenburg, cancer, inspirational, me,
Form: Abecedarian

Inner-Ipod

...Dion Warwick shook me awake this morning
unfairly accusing me of being a 'Heartbreaker'

Over coffee, Neil Diamond chimed in
with his girlfriend 'Sweet Caroline'

The Allman Brothers piled in my car
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Categories: brandenburg, music, me, me,
Form: Light Verse
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